"Supplier's multi-disciplinary approach to decision making"

[Kris N]

We saw this sentence in the standard and were wondering what this is about and how to check it: "Supplier's multi-disciplinary approach to decision making".
No IATF 16949 certified customer had ever raised the issue during an audit. Somebody has experience with this?
Thanks in advance!

 

[Sebastian]

Simply go beyond sell price where more than 1 supplier is available.
Create Excel sheet where e.g. point are automatically calculated against criteria, based on:
a) objective metrics as:
- quality performance (quality discipline)
- delivery performance (logistic/purchasing discipline)
b) subjective metrics as:
- smoothness of new product implementation (purchasing/technical discipline)
- openness of claim support (quality discipline)
c) other worth (or) less aspects, as
- standard against which supplier's quality management system is certified (purchasing/quality discipline)
- second party audit results (purchasing/quality discipline)
- payment terms (accounting discipline)
etcetera, etcetera and you have more than 1 discipline, we can even say you have multi-discipline.

Excel will tell you - take this one or another.
Without sheet nonconformity shall be raised.

 

[Kris N]

Thanks for your fast reply, Sebastian! So we have it for selection of our suppliers. And we need to check when selecting new suppliers if they do the same?

 

[Johnnymo62]

I didn't see that sentence in the standard. The closest I can find so far is 8.4.1.2 d. Where did you find the sentence you quoted?

 

[Kris N]

Hello Johnnymo62,
When reading your question, and going back to the standard with Sebastian's initial answer, I see now that I have misinterpreted the meaning, so problem solved, thank you for your quick replies!